Henry Tugume

• Focused teams on developing innovative and cutting-edge approaches at all levels with effective resource allocation and strategic planning.
• Offered expertise on employee and business development plans to enhance implementation and routine oversight.
• Established and administered annual budget with effective controls to prevent overages, minimize burn rate and support sustainability objectives.

• Executed core financial processes, including vendor setup and Mobile money payments, operational expenses, administration of bank accounts and account reconciliations.
• Mitigated process gaps and managed all operational functions, Procurement, Stock management, bank reconciliation and regulatory compliance.
• Identified improvement changes regarding key processes for internal controls and accounting procedures.
• Supported East African Territory Manager to ensure Corporate Governance Compliance both within MM Group and Local codes on principles of corporate governance. Ensure MMU operations follow:

 Delegated Authorities and Approval Limits

 Meeting Fiduciary and Statutory requirements

 External Financial Reporting/Accounting

 Applicable international and local accounting standards

 Group's Corporate Social Responsibility Policy

 Application of Group's Ethics Policy

• Worked with different project teams to ensure clear understanding of their Logframes as well as costing them.
• Continuously worked with different project managers as well as treasury department in UK to ensure clear and accurate cashflow forecasts ratio analysis and interpretation, analysis of variances, working capital management and other financial forecast which provide up to date information for Management.
• Continuously Liaise and establishing good banking relationship to facilitate prompt financial services to all MMU projects. This includes management of all bank accounts and ensuring Group policy on banking mandates and authorization levels are strictly adhered to.
• Assessed budget plans and present costs to forecast trends and recommend changes.
• Built and strengthened partnerships as well as Capacity of 4 downstream partners to ensure proper project delivery.
• Setup credit policies for Uganda
• Continuously produce different credit reports to East African Sector Lead for decision making, these Include, Debtors analysis reports, Aging analysis, WIP analysis, project profitability reports, gross revenue margin, debtor days, ROCE, etc
• Worked with Africa team to setup portfolio reports for Uganda as well as overheads and separate projects for easy analysis and decision making
• Developed forecasting tools to analyze revenue variance, business pipeline and industry trends.
• Completed backlog of audits from 2016 to 2017 as well as 2018 to 2020 audits
• Continuously carried out general ledger maintenance as well as Balance sheet and management accounts preparation
• Worked with different project managers to prepare different donor reports in line with different donor requirements.
• Operationalized 4 offices in East, west, North and Southern parts of Uganda.
• Supervise 4 Finance officers

• Trained management from Prorated budgeting to activity budgeting.
• Worked with different subgrantees to ensure and potential risks are mitigated.
• Implemented monthly cash Forecast based expenditure to monitor company profitability as well as activities.
• Provide financial/Management reports and interpret financial information to managerial staff while recommending further courses of action.
• Set up Company reserves.
• Developed Company finance manual as well as Standard Operating Procedures.
• Ensured there is proper funding for each project.
• Set up payables and receivable system.
• Reduced cash usage by 70%.
• Followed up on setting up board Committees.
• Audit preparation and management.
• Setup systems to enable Tax planning.
• Oversee operations of the finance department, set goals and objectives, and design a framework for these to be met Description of Employer: Health Research, Development and Grants management.

• Participated in the development of the Finance Policy and Standard Operating Procedures.
• Carried out Asset Verification, Coding, revaluation and reconciliation exercise for the Whole Group.
• Trained project managers and administrative staff on donor requirements.
• Oversaw receipting of organisational income from the various donors.
• Prepared reports in the prescribed accounts format, as regards expenditure and accountability of funds meant to support orphans, vulnerable children and widows in five entities of the Organization.
• This gave a good image to the organization books of accounts evidenced by 6 Financial Reporting wards by ICPAU received in 2013, 2014 and 2015.
• Managed to strengthen internal controls relating to accountable advances bringing the account balance from 400million Ugx to a manageable 15 million Ugx.
• Ensuring that accounts are in place for interim and final audits.
• Supervision of Finance Officers.

• Monitored, reviewed and reconciled cash and bank balances.
• Resolved any discrepancies in reconciliation in liaison with operations/Disbursements team.
• Assisted in preparation of management, Departmental and Donor reports.
• Assisted in reconciliation of creditor positions and debtor balances.
• Assisted in verification of other assets & liabilities balances and ensure supporting schedules are available and updating Asset registers.
• Managed organizational Inventory.
• Assisted in drawing up schedules for audit exercise.
• Followed up on resolution of audit queries.
• Followed-up on ageing suppliers.
• Reconciled Statutory deductions.